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WILLIAM FINSTER, OF BROOKLYN, AND SALI SIMONSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAP OR HEAD-COVERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,878, dated March 15, 1881.

Application filed February 16, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM FINSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and SALI SIMoNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gaps or Head- Goverings, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention is an improvement in caps or head'covcrings, and relates to the construction of the band with the View of saving both material and labor, and also of facilitating the adjustment of the band on the crown of the article. i

To this end it consists in the combination. with the crown of a cap or head-covering, of a band which is formed integral with in wardl yfolding flaps or cars (one or more) on its upper edge, whereby the band is attached to the crown, as hereinafter more fully described.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represeuts a longitudinal central section, showing the band in its upper position. Fig. 2 is a similar section, showing the lower position of the band. Fig. 3 is a rear view. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the crown or cover, B the band, and 0 its flaps or cars. These flaps or cars are formed in one piece with the bandB, and are situated on the upper edge of the band, while they are fastened to the crown at their extremities, as by stitches d, so that the flaps are a means for connecting the band to the crown. The point at which the flaps G are attached to the crown is above its lower edge, and when the band B is drawn to an upper position the flaps fold inwardly of the band in a line with its upper edge, as indicated in Fig. 1, thus making the band a double one L pposite to the flaps, While, when the band is (No model.) I

to the crown, while the flaps, moreover, facilitate the movement or adjustment of the band on the crown by reducing the bulk of material to be folded or unfolded as compared with an ordinary double-band cap.

In some cases the band B is provided with a binding-strip on its upper edge, and this strip is extended over the fold between the flaps (l and the band in order to give permanence to the fold.

In the example shown in the drawings the band B extends entirely around the crown A, which is left plain or without a visor, and when the whole is made in this way we employ three flaps 0, one at the back and one at each side of the cap; but when the crown is made with a visor and the band rests thereon at the front of the cap a single flap at the back of the cap answers the purpose.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, substantially as described, of the crown or cover and the band, which is formed integral with inwardly-folding flaps or ears (one or more) on its upper edge, whereby the band is attached to the crown or cover, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM nmsrnn. [L. s.] SALI SIMONSON. 11.. s.] Witnesses J. VAN SANTVOORD, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

